Tag: Devolution

ISLAMABAD - Minister for Inter Provincial Coordination Senator Raza Rabbani on Tuesday said the second phase of devolution of important ministries to provinces would be completed by the first week of March.
"Let me make it clear that there is no veracity to the news items that the devolution plan is being delayed. It is on time and there is no delay whatsoever," he told the National Assembly while responding to a point of order raised by PML-Q MNA Marvi Memon.
"Under the

ISLAMABAD - With the passage of time not only the legislators individually but also the parliamentary committees are questioning the sagacity behind the devolution of certain ministries to the provinces. It was the education ministry as well as the national assembly standing committee concerned that opposed its devolution to the provinces and wrote to Implementation Commission chairman Raza Rabbani in this regard.
The National Assembly body on culture strongly opposed the

KARACHI - By the end of March 2011, five more departments would be transferred to the provinces and the process of devolution would complete by June 30, 2011, Federal Inter-Provincial Coordination Minister Raza Rabbani told Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah on Monday.
The federal minister and the chief minister were discussing matters related to the transfer of various departments of the federal government to provinces at the Chief Minister's House. According to an official

ISLAMABAD - Education Minister Sardar Aseff Ahmad Ali on Tuesday said that implementation committee had assured the education ministry that it would review its decision to keep the curriculum issue with the federal government. While talking to journalists after the annual sports day of Islamabad college for Girls F-6/2, he said the ministry had raised the issue of curriculum with Raza Rabbani led Constitutional Reforms Committee for several times and it had assured them to review the

ISLAMABAD - Eminent experts on environment said on Thursday that the devolution of Environment Ministry and abolition of "Pakistan Environmental Protection Act 1997" would badly affect environment of the country.
Speaking at a seminar, they raised questions about the fate of Pakistan Environmental Protection Council (PEPC) headed by the prime minister after the abolition of environmental protection act. They said the devolution of ministry of environment would be a disaster for

ISLAMABAD - Disowned by the chief secretaries of all the four provinces, the employees of the devolved ministries of education, culture, social welfare and special education and livestock were placed in the 'surplus pool' by the Implementation Commission on Thursday.
Earlier, the chief secretaries had told the commission that they lacked resources to accommodate employees after the first phase of devolution, a source within the commission told Pakistan Today. Chaired by Chairman

ISLAMABAD - Expressing concern over the devolution of the health ministry, the Pakistan Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association (PPMA) has said that the decision would prove to be disastrous for an industry which registered a growth of 37 percent in exports during 2010.
The apprehension of pharmaceutical manufacturers regarding the devolution was highlighted at the 'Devolution of health sector and its impact on the pharma industry' seminar, organised by the Association of Health

ISLAMABAD - Even though Ministry of Tourism, under the devolution plan, will not be a federal subject after February 28, there is no clear outline of how it is to be devolved, the Standing Committee of the Senate on Tourism was told on Saturday.
"There are 123 employees of the ministry, 22 Memorandum of Understandings with different countries, Pakistan Tourism Development Corporation (PTDC), asset of Rs 23 million land of Malam Jabba Resort and several other allied departments of

ISLAMABAD - Implementation Commission on 18th Constitutional Amendment chairman Raza Rabbani on Thursday rejected the arguments of Education Minister Sardar Aseff Ahmed Ali against the devolution of the ministry to the provinces and said all the ministries in the concurrent list would be devolved to the provinces.
Education Minister Sardar Aseff Ahmed Ali was, however, confident that the ministry would not be devolved to the provinces as it falls under the federal list and not

ISLAMABAD - The implementation commission on 18th Constitutional Amendment on Wednesday heard the reservations of the Minister for Culture Pir Aftab Shah Jilani against devolution of the ministry to the provinces.
The commission met with Mian Raza Rabbani in the chair. A source told Pakistan Today that the minister presented arguments against devolution of ministry of culture to the provinces, saying that the ministry was responsible for import and export of the country's films,

ISLAMABAD - Implementation Commission on 18th Amendment Chairman Mian Raza Rabbani on Tuesday said that Zakat collection and distribution method would be finalised in the Council of Common Interest's upcoming meeting as the ministry of Zakat & Usher has been devolved to the provinces under the18th Constitutional Amendment.
A source told Pakistan Today that in the Implementation Commission on 18th Amendment's meeting, Social Welfare and Special Education Minister Samina Khalid

ISLAMABAD - The National Assembly Standing Committee on Education has decided to forward its recommendations in next two days to the implementation committee against the devolution of the ministry of education under the 18th amendment.
This was decided in the meeting on Monday under the Chairmanship of Abid Sher Ali. Abid Sher Ali, talking to reporters, said within next two days he would present unanimously passed recommendations of the committee to Senator Raza Rabani, chairman

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Controversy over monitoring of federal capital's environment after the devolution of Ministry of Environment is creating tension among the employees in Capital Development Authority (CDA) and Pakistan Environment Protection Agency (Pak-EPA).
Officials in both departments said that the higher authorities in Pak-EPA and CDA had been discussing transfer of powers to monitor the environment of the capital.
"The discussion turned into controversy,

ISLAMABAD - Devolution of organs, attached departments, autonomous and semi-autonomous institutions in the five ministries which are to be devolved to provinces in the second phase were discussed by the implementation commission on 18th Constitutional Amendment in a review meeting on Monday.
Important Decisions on the fate of these ministries were taken, sources informed Pakistan Today.
"The Establishment Division (ED), Cabinet Division and the ministry of Inter-Provincial

Lahore - According to some notable educationists, the education ministry's devolution plan may fall flat on its face because some people in the federal government do not want to give up their authority, Pakistan Today has learnt.
The federal government was supposed to transfer the education ministry's powers to the provinces, as mentioned in the 18th amendment. The stakeholders in the federal capital seem united, not to surrender their powers; including curricula and national

ISLAMABAD - Federal Minister for Education Sardar Aseff Ahmed Ali has again opposed the devolution of the Education Ministry to provinces under the 18th Amendment.
Addressing a meeting of Pakistan Educational Task Force (PETF) on Saturday, Aseff said the devolution of the ministry would be counter-productive. He said, "The Education Ministry is overseeing the affairs of more than 14 million students and seventy nine thousand teachers of the Islamabad Capital Territory, FATA,

ISLAMABAD: The federal cabinet on Wednesday approved devolution of five federal ministries to the provinces, and the Pak-Afghan Transit Trade Agreement (PATTA) after detailed deliberations.
But Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani made it clear to the provincial governments that no further financial support would be provided by the Centre after June 30, 2011.
However, Gilani committed to transfer to the provinces all resources allocated in the fiscal budget to the ministries of